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Social Bookmarking

Some examples of social bookmarking websites:

Bookmarking is the practice of saving the address of a website on your computer, that you may wish to visit in the future. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public website and “tagging” them with keywords. This allows not only you to visit them, but others can see them too. Indeed, that is the point.

In this way, whatever you save as a social bookmark becomes a source of promotion and online marketing. A strong presence within this increasingly popular area of the internet generates links back to your website, which in turn increases your rankings with the major search engines.

What impact does social bookmarking have on the internet? The Nielsen Company reports: "The number of social-media users has increased 87 percent since 2003, and surpassed e-mail use for the first time in February 2009."